Power cables snaking through the chewing super-weapon coursed with glowing energy as the warhead reached its final charging phase haloed with a wondrous aurora display. "If you shoot a Hail Mary to bomb the universe in one act it better go off by the following --" the cosmos aviator beheld concentric shock wave rings burst forth from the behemoth in a cataclysm of overpowering atomic effulgence unleashed by a conflagration of massive forces. But then the cold vacuum of space and time appeared to float in stasis for a moment, then move backward as myriads of shattered matter like a school of fish swimming under threat in a tightly packed bait ball returned to the improbable entity's nucleus a new creation as if in defiance of the feeble assault from humanity.
Faster than light engines punched through the unknowable leviathan's tail. The last few stragglers including the rock bearing the inscription fell into place while Big Bad John mutely tore ahead pulled by the animated hand of nature into the profundity of the galaxy to forever haunt its uttermost recesses.
"I wonder..."
Haviland told the citizen of the stars that they were well passed the orbiting window and now far across the fathomless universe. Then the evolving computer ran the numbers discovering the emigrant ship's power systems would last indefinitely.
